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Apple yesterday made iOS 4.3 beta 1 available to developers around the world, with versions available for all the usual hardware (including Apple TV) with the exception of the iPhone 3G. Farewell old friend. With that sad news out of the way, lets move onto what’s new in version 4.3 and after playing with the OS for 24 hours on … Read More

Home cinema favourite Denon is the first to offer Apple’s AirPlay feature on it’s line of AV receivers. Available as a $50 update to Denon’s AVR-991, AVR-3311CI, AVR-A100, and AVR-4311CI models AirPlay could well become a must-have feature on future home cinema hardware and Apple will be hoping that its video and audio streaming system will be the standard of choice … Read More

Apple has announced today that it expects their “hobby” TV product, the Apple TV (version 2), to have shifted 1 Million units inside this week. If any hobby project of mine sold that many units I’d be pretty happy, and perhaps even consider going pro! Apple’s new iteration of their internet TV system sold more than a quarter of a … Read More

Ever since AirPlay was added to iOS with version 4.2, one of the main complaints has been the lack of support for Safari – no web sites could be used with AirPlay if you wanted to show video while audio worked as expected. The fix? Webout, a new app on Apple’s App Store and priced at a very reasonable £0.59/$0.99. … Read More

One of the most eagerly anticipated features of iOS 4.2 was AirPlay – the technology that allows streaming video and audio from iOS devices to an Apple TV. The thought of throwing video from an iPad to the big screen TV was the main reason this blogger went out and bought a new Apple TV, despite already owning the first … Read More

Today we were finally deemed worthy of the iOS 4.2 goodness by Apple, with everyone’s favourite iOS devices getting updates. Just as importantly, at least for me, is the update pushed out to the 2nd generation Apple TV. The reason for my excitement about the Apple TV side of the equation is simple – AirPlay. Up until now, all the … Read More

Unfortunately for users of Apple’s iPhone 3G, a nasty little list is beginning to build up of new features that are introduced to iOS, but aren’t available on the two-year-old device. Along with Game Centre, multitasking, and home screen wallpapers, it now seems that AirPlay could be another feature that 3G users will miss out on. Whilst playing around with … Read More

The latest iOS 4.2 beta, version 3, is now available for download on the Developer Portal. No information on what’s new as yet, but we’ll be updating this post once we know more. Hopefully this release will add the full AirPlay functionality we’ve been waiting for – current betas only allow audio streaming with video promised for the final release. … Read More

Apple gave a sneak peek yesterday into the future plans for iOS 4 going beyond the iOS4.1 revision which is going to be available for all iOS users next week. The most notable thing about iOS 4.2 is that it brings the long expected unification of iPhone OS 3.2 (the iPad’s current OS version), and the current core iOS 4.x … Read More

We were not convinced of all the Apple TV rumors. We knew it was coming, but very obviously not in the way that the much hyped rumors about Apple TV said it would revolutionize the way we watch our shows and movies. Instead Apple have kept the Apple TV as a hobby. But made it one quarter of its original size, and … Read More